We have two new items in "This Week In The Police State":
- This one, I'm sure you've heard of already. A student in Florida was tasered for trying to ask John Kerry a question. He was tased for being a "pest". Here's an article with a video from the Huffington Post, whom I don't normally read, but hey, it's got the video. See if yourself. And can I just say that I think John Kerry's a fucking coward? Any one with a half a sense of decency should have gotten off of that stage and intervened, not let a student get tasered in the back of the auditorium.
- My favorite though, comes via CNN. A grandmother in Utah was at home when the local police stopped by. They wanted to cite her for her brown lawn, which I guess is against the law. When she refused to give her name to the officer she was knocked to the ground and cuffed. She was injured on her nose and had to spend time in jail. For NOT WATERING HER LAWN. Here's that story.
Again we see examples of the police believing that their primary job is beat up the people they're sworn to protect, the people who pay their salaries. They go out of their way to overpower and physically intimidate anyone, including grandmothers, who doesn't immediately snap to attention.
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